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Recent Examples of dimple
IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
Ken was a slender, dark-haired, bespectacled man with a receding hairline and dimples.
—Sheila Heti, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024
Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
From some untrodden, internal place, a visceral memory stirred, of holding up the page with Felicity pictured vertically in the centerfold, the midsection of her floral everyday dress dimpled by the magazine’s staples.
—Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
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Noun
That sharp tip rests against a shallow dimple in a small steel plate screwed to the mast.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
Ken was a slender, dark-haired, bespectacled man with a receding hairline and dimples.
—Sheila Heti, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024
Verb
Nearby a flat boulder cloaked in the shade of the yawning oak trees was dimpled with grinding holes created by nameless Native Americans, decades, or even centuries, ago.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
From some untrodden, internal place, a visceral memory stirred, of holding up the page with Felicity pictured vertically in the centerfold, the midsection of her floral everyday dress dimpled by the magazine’s staples.
—Lizzie Feidelson, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dimple
Noun
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Shough is a prototypical pocket passer with a big frame (6 foot 5, 219 pounds) who spent seven years at three schools due to a series of injuries at Texas Tech, his second stop.—
Joseph Person,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Later that day, Ellie gets ready for the barn dance by using her pocket knife — sanitized with alcohol first, thankfully — to slice up the bite on her stomach.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The index ultimately ended the day about 349 points, or 0.9%, lower as President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policies dented stocks for a third day.—
Sara Salinas,
CNBC,
8 Apr. 2025
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The shift from Apple had a secondary, perhaps psychological, effect: denting China's ability to produce the most popular consumer product in the world, and shifting that production to its biggest rival in the East.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But today, the most important political cleft is not the fading distinction between right and left, but the rising conflict between liberal and illiberal, democratic and autocratic.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
28 Mar. 2025
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Many birth defects are treatable; orofacial clefts and some heart defects, for example, can be corrected with surgery.—
Almut Winterstein,
The Conversation,
30 Jan. 2025
Verb
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It’s packed with curling memorabilia and jokey artifacts: pin badges, curling stone statues, a Worst End trophy (complete with protruding horse’s butt), strategy whiteboards, and a sign revealing the Scottish Curler’s Grace.—
Tim Chester,
AFAR Media,
16 Apr. 2025
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On Sunday, April 13, the TikToker posted a video of her applying makeup, having her hair curled and dressing in all black for the funeral, which took place less than one week after Campbell announced Elliana had died.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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The scientists, led by fossil track specialist Conner Bennett, used advanced 3D imaging techniques to identify and analyze four sets of vertebrate trace fossils, including impressions left behind by prehistoric birds, mammals, lizards and invertebrates.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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Chido Obi has made such an impression in fleeting senior cameos that not registering the 17-year-old for the Europa League could be regarded as an oversight.—
Mark Critchley,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
Verb
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How to clean air fryer coils Cleaning the air fryer basket and rack is only part of the job.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2025
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Males pour by the thousands from the depths of the limestone caverns, coiling over rocks and one another in a slow-motion frenzy of courtship.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Pygmy marmosets use their teeth to gouge holes in trees that secrete gum, or resin—not to be confused with sap, which runs through a tree’s vascular system.—
Jessica Camille Aguirre,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Jan. 2025
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All these gems are embedded in a wooden shell made of oak, sculpted with a gouge, just like the artisans who craft the cognac barrels.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The two white dwarfs are currently spiraling around each other in an orbit taking longer than 14 hours.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
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When Austin eventually breaks off the friendship with Craig, Craig spirals in a way that Robinson has perfected.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Dimple.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dimple. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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